God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

As long as one suffers one lives.

The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.